Perl monking (was Menu{Master,Maestro,etc} question(s)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 05:00:36PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> > Yeah, me too.  That's moronic.  Where does vim store that stuff,
> > anyway?
> 
> ~/.viminfo 

Noted.

> > Having looked in the vim install once, I strongly suspect that you
> > could teach it how, if you wanted to.
> 
> If I felt like wasting the time to learn their syntax highlighting
> definition style, yeah.  There was a time when I'd have considered that a
> fun way to kill an afternoon.  I must be getting old, cos it sounds like
> way more of a PITA and total lack of ROI for the effort.  I'd rather be
> doing something either fun or profitable, honestly--or both at once.
> 
> And I don't "get" the whole "meta-meta-meta" thing.  Explain? 

Ties back into your previous paragraph: it was a snarky comment on how
difficult it must be to write regular expressions -- or whatever they
use -- to match *programming syntax*.

Cheers,
-- jra
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